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Nielsen recently published some study data comparing smartphone operating system and manufacturer market share recently, showing RIM and Apple battling for second place with 27% each, while the combined efforts of HTC, Samsung, Motorola and LG have pushed Android to 29%. It was only two months ago that iOS had a pretty distinctive lead, and…
Insurance firm State Farm, in an informal survey of 912 licensed drivers performed in November 2010, found that 19% of respondents say that they browse the web at least once a week while driving their car. If that figure isn’t bone chilling enough they also found that 74% of people take and make calls while…
It was about 10 days ago when we talked about Samsung making NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered Galaxy S2 units. The information is now confirmed by Engadget’s sources and the reasoning behind such decision by the Korean company (to use NVIDIA’s versus its own chips) is apparently in the short supply of Samsung’s Exynos dual-core solution. And…
Skyfire 3.0 for iPhone is in the AppStore, bringing improved Facebook experience for those who need one. The popular “I can do Flash” mobile web browser does its social magic by integrating Facebook Connect to deliver all of the social media features that are already available on Skyfire for Android. Here’s what’s new: Popular Content…
Guess who’s getting to play with the iPad 2 first? It’s the men and women of the Federal Communications Commission which always get to try the goods before the rest of us. Of course they’re focused on checking up possible RF interferences, but imagine the temptation to play with all the toys that cross their…
We’ve already talked about location-based mobile marketing service provider Placecast in the past. Now they’ve found a big partner to push the adoption forward – AT&T. Together the two companies are launching ShopAlerts by AT&T to deliver special offers to opt-in customers when they are near a participating store or brand in New York, Los…
Remember the Samsung Champ, that super low-end all-touchscreen feature phone? It seems this tiny device is selling like hot cupcakes when the Korean company decided to release a special, slightly improved version of the phone. The new Champ phone will be launched soon – E2652 Duos which will have features similar to the original Champ…
File this under “rumors” but also under “it makes perfect sense.” As you can see from a poster image above, Sony Ericsson is (or that’s “may be”) working on a new Walkman smartphone. Last time we’ve seen the Swedish-Japanese company in the “Walkman smartphone action,” they released the Symbian UIQ3-powered W960i. Even before that, they’ve…
When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced to the world that the world’s largest handset maker would be switching to Windows Phone, Symbian would be killed after roughly 2 years, and that MeeGo isn’t even relevant anymore, you’ve got to wonder how employees took the news. In Tampere and Oulu, two cities in Finland, Symbian developers…
I can vividly remember my Amiga days. Bitmap Brothers was super-respectable name in the gaming business. Pretty much all of their games were rock solid, providing tons of hours of entertainment for the truly yours. Speedball 2 was on that list too, and boy am I glad to see it being re-done for the iPhone…